A Collection of eighteen rare and curious historical tracts and pamphlets.

A Collection of eighteen rare and curious historical tracts and pamphlets.

Edinburgh : Priv. print. [E.G. Goldsmid], 1884-1886.

18 nos. in 1 v. ; 19 cm

Issued in parts as Historical reprints I-XVIII. The collective t.-p. as above and table of contents were issued only to subscribers for the complete set.

"Of each of the eighteen pamphlets in the collection, only fifty large paper and two hundred small paper copies were printed." No. I, IV, V, VII, IX, XI, XIII-XV, XVII were also issued as: Ten scarce books in English literature.

I. The political creed of a Tory-malecontent / [Joseph Addison]
II. Duke Hamiltons conditions for surrendring himself
III. Gt. Brit. Parliament. 1642. A remonstrance ... 26 of May
IV. A letter from ... Lord Fairfax to ... Robert earle of Essex / Sir F.F. Fairfax, 2nd Baron
V. No blinde guides / [Sir Roger L'Estrange]
VI. The affairs of Scotland in 1689
VII. News from Dublin in Ireland / [H.C.]
VIII. The Rye House plot / [Thomas Sprat], Bishop of Rochester
IX. The impostor painted in his own colours
X. The reign of William the Conqueror
XI. The genealogy of the kings of Britain
XII. Four original documents relating to the marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves
XIII. Gt. Brit. Sovereigns, etc., 1509-1547 (Henry VIII) Instructions of Henry VIII, for the general visitiation of the monasteries and nunneries
XIV. Four curious documents
XV. Two important state papers
XVI. The Earl of Hertford's expedition against Scotland
XVII. Exact and certaine newes from the seige at Yorke
XVIII. An answer to the second manifesto of the Pretender's eldest son / [W.G. Prestongrange], Lord, supposed author.

Great Britain -- Scotland -- Edinburgh.

DA300 .C7

Separately-bound tracts are cataloged individually ; see under Historical reprints.